The head of the Self-Insurance Institute of America went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to try to keep the Obama administration from applying new limits on medical stop-loss insurance.
SIIA President Michael Ferguson testified at a House Education & Workforce health subcommittee hearing on self-insurance in favor of H.R. 3462, the "Self-Insurance Protection Act" bill.
The bill would exclude stop-loss insurance from the federal definition of "health insurance coverage" given in the Public Health Services Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code, Ferguson said.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
